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MIDDLETOWN — City voters re-elected State Reps. Joe Serra and Matt Lesser by wide margins Tuesday while also approving two referendum questions. Lesser defeated Republican challenger Angel Fernandez for a fourth term representing the 100th House District with a tally of 5,095 to 2,138, while Serra won a 12th term by beating Republican Linda Szynkowicz, a board of education member, 3,966 to 2,418. In a tight race in the 13th Senate District, which includes Meriden, Cheshire, Middlefield and part of Middletown, State Sen. Dante Bartolomeo, a Democrat, appears to have won a second term over Republican Len Suzio. The race was a rematch from two years ago, when Bartolomeo unseated Suzio...

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MIDDLETOWN — City voters re-elected State Reps. Joe Serra and Matt Lesser by wide margins Tuesday while also approving two referendum questions.Lesser defeated Republican challenger Angel Fernandez for a fourth term representing the 100th House District...

Democrats kept their grip on the state Senate on a night of tension and tentative celebration in party headquarters across Connecticut.
Republicans had been optimistic about flipping a few seats and narrowing the Democrats’ 22-14 advantage in the Senate....

CHESHIRE — Dr. William Petit and a former Republican state senator called Wednesday for ending the Malloy administration's early release program for violent criminals.
Standing on the town green in Cheshire, Petit signed a petition that is being...

SOUTHINGTON — The suicide Tuesday of a bank robbery suspect, released from prison in August 115 days early, is further evidence of the failure of a 2012 state policy that gives prisoners credit for good behavior behind bars, two Republican critics of...

A conservative group and several Republican lawmakers is filing a legal challenge to the newly adopted state budget, alleging that its assumption of $2 billion of yet-to-be-determined savings violates the Connecticut constitution.
"In 1992 the...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced with much fanfare recently that a research laboratory will be coming to Farmington with the state's help, but the plan is running into a buzzsaw of criticism from Republican legislators who say there are too many unanswered...

The state legislature will be holding informational hearings Thursday on a controversial plan to bring a genetic research institute to the University of Connecticut Health Center campus in Farmington.The hearings will be held in advance of next week's...

It is a tale of two bills.As the legislature prepares for a special session next week on creating jobs, negotiators are getting close to a bipartisan deal on a jobs package that would have widespread support. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy met with Republicans and...

A Republican state senator is criticizing the Malloy administration for failing to release documents outlining the agreement between the state and the Jackson Laboratory that intends to bring 300 jobs to Farmington.Sen. Leonard Fasano, the...

Retiree Duane Billington fought for 18 months against Jackson Laboratory's plan to expand in Florida, and he was relieved when the proposal was finally withdrawn in the Sunshine State.
The former engineering technician and civic activist from Naples,...

Retiree Duane Billington fought for 18 months against Jackson Laboratory’s plan to expand in Florida, and he was relieved when the proposal was finally withdrawn in the Sunshine State. The former engineering technician and civic activist became a...

After sharp clashes throughout the day, the state legislature voted Wednesday in favor of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's controversial plan to recruit the nonprofit Jackson Laboratory to Farmington with a $291 million offer to construct a new building in...

Both chambers of the state legislature voted Wednesday night in favor of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's controversial plan to recruit the nonprofit Jackson Laboratory to Farmington with a $291 million offer to construct a new building and create 300 direct...

Democratic leaders are considering a pre-Christmas special session regarding recent electrical outages that could include tax credits for hotel stays and an expansion of the state's price-gouging law.The leaders who control the legislature are currently...

— State gasoline taxes would drop by about a penny a gallon under a one-year cap on the gross receipts tax, as proposed Monday by Democratic legislative leaders.The penny savings is at today's wholesale prices, and the savings could rise to 7.5 cents a...

State police arrested influential state Sen. Thomas P. Gaffey, D- Meriden, on larceny charges Monday, accusing him of double-billing the state and his political action committee for expenses associated with attending legislative conferences throughout...